The rate of a chemical reaction is affected by several parameters. Reactions involving two phases proceed more rapidly when there is greater surface area contact. If temperature or reactant concentrat...The rate of a chemical reaction is affected by several parameters. Reactions involving two phases proceed more rapidly when there is greater surface area contact. If temperature or reactant concentration is increased, the rate of a given reaction generally increases as well. A catalyst can increase the rate of a reaction by providing an alternative pathway that causes the activation energy of the reaction to decrease.
When we get to units of time larger than weeks, however, we encounter problems because not all months have the same number of days, a year is not exactly 52 weeks, and the time it takes for the Ea...When we get to units of time larger than weeks, however, we encounter problems because not all months have the same number of days, a year is not exactly 52 weeks, and the time it takes for the Earth to orbit the Sun is not exactly 365 days. The destructive power of nuclear weapons is measured in kilotons (the equivalent of 1,000 tons of TNT) or megatons (the equivalent of 1,000,000 tons of TNT).
